FFC Geography
40 Years of Television
Aviation
Dynamics and NWP
Facts
100
The demarcation of the Georgia Piedmont and Coastal Plains is known as this
What is the Fall Line?
100
During this broadcast, each 30 second commercial cost an estimated $3 million
What is the 2011 Super Bowl?
100
This is the range of visibility for MVFR conditions.
What is 3 to 5 statute miles?
100
This 80s TV star advocates for a balanced approach of using NWP models and forecaster skill and intuition.
Who is Mr T?
100
This office has the best ET staff in the NWS
What is FFC?
200
This is the correct pronunciation of "Talliaferro"
What is TALL-uh-ver?
200
When this show first aired, it could only be shown after 9 PM due to its content.
What is All in the Family?
200
ARM stands for this important position conceived at the combined NWS offices in Atlanta
What is Aviation Response Meteorologist?
200
In the last 2 years, this model has the most accurate QPF for the 12 to 48 hour forecast periods
What is the Short-Range Ensemble Forecast (SREF)?
200
This person is the only one to allow a chicken to die on their watch
Who is Laura Belanger?
300
Name this county
What is Cobb County?
300
On February 28, 1983, this series concluded and it became the most watched TV episode in US history with 105.97 million viewers.
What is M*A*S*H?
300
The CCFP stands for this national product issued by the Aviation Weather Center in Kansas City
What is the Collaborative Convective Forecast Product?
300
The quasi-geostrophic omega equation is primarily driven by these two forcing functions
What are temperature advection and differential vorticity advection?
300
This person has the most kids
Who is Kent Frantz?
400
Name this county
What is Barrow County?
400
This sitcom never ended the television season rated as the #1 series, according to the Nielsen Ratings, during the 1990s.
What is Friends?
400
This is the percentage of IFR conditions observed at ATL out of all IFR forecasts made in the first 10 days of July 2011
What is 1%?
400
This model will replace the RUC in late 2011
What is the Rapid Refresh (or HRRR, the High-Res Rapid Refresh)?
400
This place has the world's worst weather
What is Texas?
500
Name this county
What is Jasper County?
500
This is the greatest TV Judge of all time
Who is Judge Judy?
500
This person is the MIC of the CWSU
Who is Fred?
500
This parameter modulates the forcing functions of the QG omega equation. When the parameter is lower, less of the forcing functions are needed to obtain the same omega
What is static stability?
500
Even though this person had a bat named after him, it did not always make him an obedient employee or a better singer
Who is Gerald Birdow?